Environs

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  • noun plural. A surrounding area, especially of a city.
  • noun plural. Surroundings; environment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Places lying circumjacent; surrounding parts or localities: as, the environs of a city or town.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun plural. The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The surroundings; the environment.
  • verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of environ.
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  • noun. the area in which something exists or lives
  • noun. an outer adjacent area of any place